Note: there is a space before the terminal punctuation marks. Just like aerobic compositing , this aerates the text .

Translated by Catherine Lavoie and Colette Tougas in Public 41 "Gardens" (2010)

As heterotrophic beings (predators), human animals are incapable of synthesizing their own food resources and must take them from the environment. The possibility of returning to the environment the energy taken and transformed implies the creation of an economy that is the opposite of the one now governing our planet. This new model is aimed at the non-accumulation of material goods — waste that only takes up space, polluting substrates at the expense of life itself.
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A dead leaf that has fallen to the ground is not waste but nourishment.